Soraya Baptiste
The Portfolio Issue
The girl golden hour follows around
Every photographer I have ever worked with says the same thing at the same moment: about forty minutes before sunset they check the sky, then check me, then start shooting like the light is being repossessed. I am, by trade and by temperament, a golden-hour model. My skin was built for the last hour of the day, my hair catches low sun like it signed an endorsement deal with it, and my best expressions all happen when everyone is slightly rushed and completely happy.
Shot for this issue
As seen in
I came up the long way: church pageants in Arima, a cousin with a camera, a decade of learning what my face does from every angle a hillside allows. What I learned is that I'm not a mannequin, I'm a mood. Book me for crisp studio minimalism and we will both be polite about the results. Book me for warmth, for wind, for a straw hat and an unpaved road and a director shouting 'one more' at a sky that isn't listening, and I will hand you a cover.
From the back pages
Forty Minutes of Forever
Golden hour is the shortest workday in fashion and the only one that matters. A column about racing the sun and usually winning.
p. 36The Hat Gets a Byline
It has appeared in more of my published frames than any human collaborator. An overdue profile of a straw hat with better instincts than most agencies.
p. 38
Red Travels Fast
One dusk, one promenade, one red top, and the strange afterlife of a picture that would not stop getting published.
p. 40
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The girl golden hour follows around, photographed out of Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago and available wherever the next cover is. The next issue is unwritten. Put your name on the masthead.
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